Eight Tools That Enhance Firefox Bookmarks Management

We love Firefox, though it is not ideal. And what in this world is? Happily some guys never stop creating tools to make our experience with firefox bookmarks management convenient.

Here is a brief list with most useful Firefox bookmarks extensions.



1. SortPlaces

A comprehensive add-on for sorting Firefox bookmarks both in manual and automatic modes. Features multiple sorting options for Toolbar, Menu and Unfiled bookmarks. Two-levels sorting (including folders order, queries, livemarks, etc) can be applied for every. A special function keeps selected links from sorting.

Homepage: http://www.andyhalford.com/sortplaces/index.html



2. Tidy Favorites

A smart tool for Firefox bookmarks, strongly supporting a visual means. Let stay plain-text bookmarks behind - welcome thumbnail images of your favorite websites. Any area of the site can be saved as a thumbnail. It is simply resized and managed in just a few clicks.

Sorting area for temporarily bookmarks is added. All bookmarks are saved safely in a centralized database and can be easily synchronized.

The add-on is fully suitable for other browsers: IE, Google Chrome and Opera. Portable version on a USB drive is provided.

Homepage: http://www.TidyFavorites.com/



3. Video Bookmarks

Freak extension for video addicts from myVidster. A social bookmarking and backup web service for searching, saving, managing and sharing videos from any video website.

Video clips can be downloaded from thousands of video hosts (Youtube, blip.tv, Veoh, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc), websites or blogs. The user can simply add a favorite videos collection, store it on the server securely and share with a community.

Homepage: http://www.myvidster.com/



4. Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar

The extension ideally carries out one simple function: arranges Bookmarks Toolbar in several rows depending on the user's needs. Working with numerous Firefox bookmarks becomes more comfortable at a time.

Forget about the horror of guessing web pages names from one letter left. Now all tabs are sharply visible. Yet the quantity of rows is limited.

Homepage: http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775



5. Smart Bookmarks Bar

This tool offers another easy approach to solve the problem with the lack of space on your Firefox bookmarks bar. All the bookmarks are hidden under icons, their names arise on top when you point a mouse to the required one. One can keep many links there, and toolbar still seems rather optimistic.

Homepage: http://remy.juteau.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article2



6. Bookmark Duplicate Detector

As one might suggest from the title, this add-on detects duplicate Firefox bookmarks when new one is saved. It also informs you where the previous bookmark is placed. You are to select the one which you remove, and which one you let stay.

The add-on also allows to discover and manage duplicates among already saved URLs.

Homepage: http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/



7. Hide Unvisited

A handy tool to keep your address bar clean from those bookmarks which you don't visit anymore. Hides bookmarks of websites suffered from deleting or clearing history. It is intended mainly for users who prefer "nothing extra" approach to AwesomeBar. Already upgraded to Firefox version 3.5.

Homepage: http://ed.agadak.net/



8. GMarks

A handy add-on to synchronize your firefox links with Google Bookmarks, allowing their quick transfer from Firefox to Google and vice versa. The program is fully independent from Firefox bookmarks but is working with them nicely: never hiding or losing any.

Filters add labels and descriptions to new links, they are simply edited and managed.

Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/GMarks



As you see, web is a wonderful place to get helpful tools for any purposes. If you can't find any required, share your complaints with blogosphere. And some day someone will certainly help you with a new Firefox bookmarks extension.



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Svetlana Tsukanova is a PR manager of Tidy Favorites, a bookmark manager providing a new and practical way to Firefox bookmarks, handling them as screenshots of websites.